29 results about this entity
Period: 30 Mar 2006 - 23 Feb 2023
Company announcement/inclusion
Mastercard and Obopay today announced their collaboration to launch a financial inclusion card for smallholder farmers and rural communities.
23 February 2023
News
Finnish handset manufacturer Nokia is closing down its mobile money service in India as it sheds non-core parts of the business.
12 March 2012
US debit/ATM network operator Pulse and mobile money vendor Obopay have teamed up to deliver immediate person-to-person payments for Pulse member banks and credit unions.
23 February 2012
Union Bank of India has partnered with handset manufacturer Nokia and m-payment vendor Obopay to develop a national mobile money network on the subcontinent.
26 November 2010
Citigroup has shaken up its Growth Ventures and Innovation Unit as it looks to tap emerging technology from Silicon Valley tech firms to revitalise its retail banking operations.
28 July 2010
Societe Generale has launched a mobile money transfer and bill payment service in Senegal that is open to anyone with a handset, whether or not they have a bank account and regardless of their network operator.
28 June 2010
US mobile money outfit Obopay has released a white-label version of its system which is designed to fast-track bank entry into the emerging m-payments market.
11 May 2010
The world's biggest handset manufacturer Nokia is teaming up with India's Yes Bank on a commercial mobile financial services pilot in Pune.
16 February 2010
Citi has ended its three year mobile money test with Obopay and appears set to dump its relationship with m-banking supplier Firethorn as part of a global enterprise-wide evaluation of its wireless strategy.
07 December 2009
The world's biggest handset manufacturer Nokia has teamed with Obopay to launch a mobile financial management and payments service targeted at unbanked people in developing countries.
26 August 2009
MasterCard has teamed with the Bancorp Bank for the launch of its person-to-person mobile payment platform for US issuers.
14 May 2009
Actus, a recently formed US holding company, is suing 20 companies, including Bank of America, MasterCard, Obopay and Visa, accusing them of infringing four patents related to an electronic payments system for e-commerce.
17 April 2009
California-based m-payments outfit Obopay has received a major investment from mobile phone giant Nokia, which it will use to move into new markets.
25 March 2009
California-based mobile payments outfit Obopay has launched three widgets that can be simply attached to Web pages to make it easy to send and receive money online.
13 January 2009
Citi and Obopay have launched a US-wide person-to-person (P2P) mobile payments pilot for the bank's customers.
14 October 2008
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has placed strict restrictions on the range of mobile banking services that providers can offer customers in the country, in a move which raises uncertainty over the development of up-and-coming remittance programmes.
22 September 2008
California-based Obopay has teamed with microfinance pioneer Grameen to launch an initiative that aims to use mobile technology to deliver banking services to a billion of the world's poorest people by 2018.
06 August 2008
MasterCard is partnering California-based Obopay to provide an on-demand person-to-person (P2P) mobile payments service to its US cardholders.
19 June 2008
California-based mobile payments outfit Obopay has raised $20 million in a series d financing round led by the telecomms arm of Indian conglomerate Essar.
25 April 2008
California-based mobile payments start-up Obopay has teamed with India's Yes Bank to launch its person-to-person money transfer service in the country.
28 March 2008
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